Levin’s discussions on the Constitution are as quaint as discussing Shakespeare or poems by Robert Frost.
The founders made their arguments and backed each one up with musket.
That is how we achieved independence. As opposed to Magna Charta and the English Bill of Rights which were extracted from unwilling princes, we formed a government in an unusual way . . . through peaceful deliberation.
I would suggest that there were no muskets in the room during the constitutional convention, and no muskets forced the voters to ratify the constitution after the finished product was produced.
The Congress of the US under the Confederation submitted it to the states for action, and after being accepted, transferred their powers to the new US government. The outgoing US President of the United States under the Confederation stood next to the incoming President of the US under the current Constitution.